Shari’a fatwa: Afghan journalist must die

The mind of Islam shows in the Shari’a fatwa: Afghan journalist must die for article critical of Islam

Jason Straziuso and Amir Shah with the Associated Press reported Wednesday, Jan. 23, on the Shari’a fatwa, or Islamic “legal” decision that a journalist must die for an article he had possession of that criticized Islam.

He merely had it in his possession…We don’t know if he pulled it off our website or not - an article written by Martin Mawyer? …

Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, 23, was sentenced to death Tuesday by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing a report he printed off the Internet to fellow journalism students at Balkh University.

The article and asks why men can have four wives but women can't have multiple husbands. It was written in the Iranian language of Farsi, which is similar to the Afghan language of Dari.

Okay, our Martin Mawyer is off the hook.

The judges said the article humiliated Islam, and members of a clerics council had pushed for Kaambakhsh to be punished. The case now goes to the first of two appeals courts.

Jean MacKenzie, country director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, which helps train Afghan journalists, said Kaambakhsh was being punished for stories written for IWPR by his brother, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi.

"We feel very strongly that this is a complete fabrication on the part of the authorities up in Mazar, designed to put pressure on Parwez' brother Yaqub,” MacKenzie said.

“[Yaqub] has done some of the hardest-hitting pieces outlining abuses by some very powerful commanders in Balkh and the other northern provinces," she added.

The media industry has exploded in recent years in Afghanistan, which now has dozens of newspapers and TV news channels.

Journalists are routinely pressured by government officials or powerful factional leaders trying to prevent reporting on sensitive issues.

Do we feel some of the chilling effect that Islam’s Shari’a oppression seeks to have over all the world?

They quash critical thinking about a brigand turned emperor who demands his and only his claims of hearing voices are divine and supersede all previous divine revelation through hundreds of tested prophets over thousands of years. Hmmmmmm….

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